TURF SYSTEM

[attr="class","staffposttitle"]TURF SYSTEM

[attr="class","staffpost"]Turf is basically a location that your character or your guild is familiar with and have some sort of authority over. There are two ways for you to gain home turf: you can either convince the residents to allow the town to be part of your or your guild’s territory (if you’re going the non-violent, diplomatic route) or you can take the place over by force. No matter the route, you must be strong and influential enough in order to claim a location as your home turf. For example, a weak guild full of D-Class mages aren’t going to be able to convince Crocus, Fiore’s capital, to be part of the guild’s territory. Also, if the same guild attempted to attack and take Crocus over by force, they’d be inevitably slaughtered by the hundreds of Rune Knights and other mages stationed there.

Each location has a minimum rank a mage or a guild needs to have in order to consider making a place part of their turf; this is called the location’s defense rating. Once the minimum rank is met, the character or guild wanting to claim the place of interest must make an OPEN, DEATH ENABLED thread in the place of interest, no matter if they’re trying to make the area their turf through diplomacy or hostile takeover. The thread must remain up for FORTY-EIGHT [48] hours, in which any person can join the thread and contest the claiming person(s), so long as there is an appropriate IC reason to do so. If forty-eight hours pass without any challenges or objections, then staff will step in to NPC the opposition. Claiming turf also grants a special bonus: you get additional jewels per post in your turf depending on the area's rank.


It is also possible to take over a village, town and city that’s already a character’s or guild’s home turf. The minimum rank requirement for each location still applies though, and the claiming process is the same as taking over an unclaimed location.

You can only try to claim home turf once every THREE weeks. Also, the maximum amount of people allowed on each side (claiming side vs challenging side) is THREE; this is to ensure that the thread is able to progress smoothly and not get too messy. A single individual can have ONE location as their home turf; a guild can have up to TWO locations as their home turf.

Listed below are the minimum ranks needed to claim each location as home turf. Also, if anyone is already occupying a specific location, they will be listed below as well.



MAGNOLIA TOWN. S-Class

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